Football Awards

    Football Almanac is pleased to present the most comprehensive selection of football honors and foootball awards found on the Internet. Each football award lists all of the recipients, a brief history of the football award, other interesting facts, and – in some cases – detailed voting results for the football award.

    Football Award Notes: Bold faced awards are active / currently being awarded to players today. Those which are not bold faced have been discontinued, a description of what happened is on the award's page, and the years it existed are listed immediately below the award title.

"The things you do individually are great, but the reason you play this game is to win the Championship." - Pittsburgh Steelers Running Back Jerome Bettis
Football Awards
NFL Awards

Football Awards Appear in Alphabetical Order

Byron "Whizzer" White Award
   1965 - 2009

Defensive Player of the Year Award
   1971 - 2010

Earle "Greasy" Neale Award
   1989 - 2010

Golden Toe Award
   1971 - 2010

Most Valuable Player of the Year Award
   1955 - 2010   [Newspaper Enterprise Association Version]

Most Valuable Player of the Year Award
   1957 - 2010   [Associated Press Version]

Most Valuable Player of the Year Award
   1975 - 2010   [Pro Football Writers of America Version]

Mr. Irrelevant / Lowsman Trophy Award
   1936 - 2010

NFL Coach of the Year Award
   1957 - 2010

NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award
   1998 - 2010   [Associated Press Version]

NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award
   1972 - 2010   [Pro Football Writers of America Version]

NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award
   xxxx - xxxx

NFL Executive of the Year Award
   xxxx - xxxx

NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Award
   xxxx - xxxx

NFL Rookie of the Year Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Offensive Player of the Year Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Super Bowl MVP Award
   1967 - 2010

AFL-AFC Player of the Year Award
   1960 - 1996

AFL-AFC Rookie of the Year Award
   1960 - 1996

Joe F. Carr Trophy
   1938 - 1946

Miller Lite NFL Player of the Year Award
   1989 - 2006

Most Valuable Player of the Year Award
   1948 - 1969   [United Press International]

NFC Player of the Year Award
   1970 - 1996

NFL-NFC Rookie of the Year Award
   1955 - 1996

NFL Assistant Coach of the Year Award
   1993 - 1998

Football Awards
College Football Awards

Football Awards Appear in Alphabetical Order

Bronko Nagurski Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Buck Buchanan Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Butkus Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Chuck Bednarik Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Davey O'Brien Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Doak Walker Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Fred Biletnikoff Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Gagliardi Trophy
   xxxx - xxxx

Harlon Hill Trophy
   xxxx - xxxx

Heisman Trophy Award
   1935 - 2010

Jim Thorpe Award
   xxxx - xxxx

John Mackey Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Lou Groza Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Maxwell Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Melberger Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Outland Trophy
   xxxx - xxxx

Ray Guy Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Rimington Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Rotary Lombardi Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Ted Hendricks Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Walter Camp Award
   xxxx - xxxx

Walter Payton Award
   xxxx - xxxx

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Did you know that Leon Hart of the 1951 Detroit Tigers won the Associated Press All-Pro Offensive End of the Year AND the United Press International All-Pro Defensive End of the Year the same year?

The NFL began awarding the Joe F. Carr Trophy (Carr was league president from 1921-39) to the league's most valuable player in 1938, and continued to do so until 1946. Since that time, the NFL's Most Valuable Players and Players of the Year have been named by a variety of sources including some of the top football publications - read about each and every one of them here on Football Almanac.

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